Delve

[Delve]

The verb delve means to dig into, loosen, or investigate. She delved into her family's history and discovered an inventor, a checkers champion, and a circus equestrian in her ancestry.

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To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.

Verb
turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"

v. t.
To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.

v. t.
To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.

v. i.
To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.

v. t.
A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.

Delve

Delve v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Delving.] [AS. delfan to dig; akin to OS. bidelban to bury, D. delven to dig, MHG. telben, and possibly to E. dale. Cf. Delf a mine.] 1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floo
2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
I can not delve him to the root.

Delve

Delve, v. i. To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.
Delve may I not: I shame to beg.

Delve

Delve, n. [See Delve, v. t., and cf. Delf a mine.] A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
Which to that shady delve him brought at last penser.
The very tigers from their delves Look out.

To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.

To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.

A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.

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Usage Examples

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.